John Chehak's unique style captures the essence of his Midwestern heritage. It is this style that he uses to express himself in images of American life and scenery."I'm particularly fond of the symmetry and beauty of buildings and structures, both…
Larry Welo has been creating etchings since the early 1970's. A graduate of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Welo operated a studio in Minneapolis until moving to Wisconsin, where he currently lives with his family.
An Iowan since 1972, Suzanne B. Aunan is a self-taught artist who has enjoyed painting as far back as she can remember. Born in New York City, she grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Suzanne attended the University of Iowa, majoring in…
Enter David Luck's studio and you immediately confront his fascination with metalworking. Every available inch is packed with work spaces, older yet well- maintained tools, scraps of sheet metal, shipping crates, files, books. In a studio that could…
After receiving an MFA in painting from the University of Iowa in 1986, Peter Thompson spent six years teaching at Auburn University in Montgomery, AL. He returned to Iowa in 1993 to join the faculty of Coe College, in Cedar Rapids, where he teaches…
Art gives us an understanding of place. One of the things an artist does is show us the way each place is beautiful, or awesome, or terrible. I have lived in the same place for nearly twenty years, where I have built my own studio and house. Like the…
Dan Attoe was born in 1975 in Bremerton, Washington. He received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1998, and just finished his MFA in Painting at the University of Iowa. He has shown extensively in Iowa, Chicago, Los Angeles, New…
Noah Doely is an artist from Iowa who earned his BFA degree in sculpture from the University of Northern Iowa in 2005. Doely will enter graduate school in the Fall of 2006 to pursue an M.F.A. degree at the University of South Florida. His work has…
Jim Kasper maintains his wood-fire kiln on his rural property near Tipton, Iowa, where he lives with his wife Lucy and Great Dane, Bert. On his land, he is establishing 20 acres of native prairie grasses and about four acres of trees.
